Grade 5 Reading passage
How Dernwood Point Makes Tap Water From the Sea
A grade 5 informational passage about a fictional coastal town whose wells turned salty, the membrane plant it built, and why it still asks families to save water.
Water Science · Grade 5
These materials teach earth science, chemistry, biology, and physics through water systems, from the water cycle to treatment chemistry.
29 materials written for this grade · refine by type, topic, or standard in the catalog
Grade 5 Worksheet
Glenray's Well Field in a Dry July: A Water Level Worksheet
Students subtract decimals to find the drawdown at four wells in a fictional town, then explain how a summer watering rule protects the gravel aquifer below.
Grade 5 Lesson plan
Three Hills Above Havershill: Choosing a Water Tank Site
A grade 5 lesson where students test three hilltop sites for a fictional town's water tank against height, pipe length, and storage rules using decimal subtraction.
Grade 5 Math problem set
A Day of Flow at the Lissenden Water Reclamation Plant
A grade 5 decimal problem set following one day at a fictional wastewater plant, from the screen baskets through the settling tank to the weight of solids removed.
Grade 5 Lab / experiment
Three Soils at Pelmore Flats: A Grade 5 Soak-Through Fair Test
Students time the same cup of water through sand, garden soil, and a half-and-half mix to recommend a soil for a fictional town's rain garden and name what to improve.
Grade 5 Worksheet
Skelmore Dam's Rain Gauge Log: A Grade 5 Line Plot Worksheet
Students plot ten days of rainfall measured in eighths of an inch above a fictional dam, add and subtract the fractions, and model how rain refills the lake.
Grade 5 Lesson plan
Tannerly Orchard's Drip Lines: Where a Peach Tree's Mass Comes From
A grade 5 science lesson where students weigh evidence that a peach tree is built from air and water, then multiply decimals to compare drip and flood watering.
Grade 5 Classroom activity
The Tolvern Creek Water Budget: A Gallon-Card Role-Play
Students take the roles of rain, creek, farm, wetland, and town, passing gallon cards through three rounds to model where a small creek's water goes in a dry stretch.
Grade 5 Classroom activity
Four Jobs at Verrick Ridge: A Grade 5 Water Plant Rotation
Groups rotate through four stations at a fictional water plant, making each worker's shift decision and explaining how the four jobs protect one town's water supply.
Grade 5 Lesson plan
Where the Water Waits at Wistleton: A Two-System Model Lesson
A grade 5 science lesson in which students build a labeled model of water's stops above and below a fictional town, comparing days in the air with centuries in rock.
Grade 5 Math problem set
Ashcott's Drain Screens: A Grade 5 Fair Test Problem Set
A grade 5 problem set weighing debris and drain times from four storm drain screen trials in a fictional town, including one trial that was not a fair test.
Grade 5 Math problem set
Corven Ridge Storm Test: Where the Rain Went on Two Slopes
A grade 5 problem set comparing runoff and soak-in on a burned slope and a forested slope of a fictional ridge, using fractions and decimals to hundredths.
Grade 5 Lab / experiment
Drummond Springs Hard Water: A Grade 5 Mixing Test
Teams stir Epsom salt and washing soda into cups of warm water to find out whether mixing two clear solutions makes a new white solid, as a softening plant does.
Grade 5 Quiz & test questions
Grazebrook's Salty Well: A Grade 5 Matter and Water Test
A 22-point end-of-unit test on dissolving, weight conservation, and mixing, set at a fictional town whose well water tastes salty, with twelve mixed-format items.
Grade 5 Lesson plan
Ingleside's Midnight Meter Check: Finding a Hidden Leak
A 50-minute grade 5 lesson where students subtract 1:00 a.m. and 4:00 a.m. meter readings from two Ingleside streets to find which one hides a leak.
Grade 5 Reading passage
The Cleanup Crew at Kemsley: Microbes That Eat Waste
A grade 5 informational passage about an operator who keeps trillions of microbes fed and full of air at a fictional water reclamation plant, with six questions.
Grade 5 Worksheet
Marbleton's Six Steps: A Grade 5 Treatment Flow Worksheet
Students put the six steps of the fictional Marbleton water plant in order, explain what each one removes, and convert settling and filter times into minutes.
Grade 5 Classroom activity
Palmerton's Purple Pipe Sort: Matching Water to Its Job
Teams rotate through four stations sorting twelve water-use cards into drinking-water and recycled-water bins, then total the gallons a reuse system could serve.
Grade 5 Lesson plan
Tessington Gorge Dam: Modeling a River Before and After
A 55-minute grade 5 lesson where teams run a sand stream table twice, once open and once dammed, to model how a dam changes a river and its sediment.
Grade 5 Worksheet
Where Wardlow Valley Keeps Its Water: A Grade 5 Worksheet
Students graph Earth's salt and fresh water using a 100-cup model, then read a table of Wardlow Valley's reservoir, aquifer, and creek to compare stored water.
Grade 5 Lesson plan
Clearing Cloudy Water at Foxglen: A Grade 5 Coagulation Lesson
A grade 5 science lesson where students run a tabletop coagulation demonstration, adding a coagulant to cloudy water to see solids clump and settle.
Grade 5 Lesson plan
From Ridge to Tap: Modeling the Thornbury Watershed's Systems
A grade 5 lesson in which students build a labeled watershed model tracing rain from a ridge through soil to an aquifer and on to a town's water tap.
Grade 5 Reading passage
Too Much of a Good Thing: Nutrient Runoff at Windham Creek
A grade 5 informational passage tracing how fertilizer runoff feeds an algae bloom at a creek, lowers oxygen, and affects fish living in the water.
Grade 5 Classroom activity
Quail Hollow Marsh: A Grade 5 Wetland Filter Relay
A grade 5 movement activity where students carry nutrient beads through a model wetland's zones, acting out how a marsh filters water before a lake.